Longtime Great Lakes citizen advocates Lee Botts and Paul Muldoon have authored a book on the history of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
What is that, you say?
It's an international pact between the U.S. and Canada, signed in 1972, that set the framework for ridding the Lakes of phosphorus pollution and later helped the two nations deal with toxic substances in the Lakes. The agreement helped create mechanisms -- including public oversight and accountability -- that galvanized the recovery of the Lakes in the 1970s and 1980s.
But governments didn't like that much accountability, and the agreement has been largely neglected in recent years.
The Botts and Muldoon book tells that story and offers some hope as to how the agreement could become an instrument of a second Great Lakes recovery.
You can order an advance copy here:
http://www.davedempsey.org/prorderform.pdf
Posted by Dave at August 3, 2005 12:15 PM